Environmental and health advocates say the incident highlights the need for more testing and regulation of PFAS in the waste stream and in consumer products.
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Long Creek stream restoration underway near Maine Mall
The $850,000 project is the first of its kind in Maine – moving dirt, rock and hemlock trees to sculpt a healthy, meandering creek bed where a polluted drainage ditch has formed in recent decades.
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Reps. Fay and Ingwersen: For Maine to beat forever chemicals, we need federal and state solutions
It’s heartening that Maine will be phasing out the use of toxic PFAS in food packaging, but that’s just a first step.